In the 1990s, many aspiring American independent filmmakers tried to repeat the feat of Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith by reaching fame with debut films made with a ridiculously small amount of money. One such attempt was *Gravesend*, a 1996 crime drama written and directed by Salvatore Stabile. The film is based on an unfinished novel that Stabile was writing as a teenager, inspired by his life in Gravesend, a wo…